A Life with Him [VegasXPete]

CHAPTER 27

VEGAS

The hotel lobby buzzed with activity as guests milled about, their voices mingling with the clinking of cutlery and the aroma of freshly brewed coffee. It was a sunny day outside, despite the cold weather that autumn brought, the whole place was enlightened by the warm sunlight getting through the big glass windows. Usually, that was the kind of day Vegas enjoyed the most, and he would’ve liked more if it wasn’t for the fucking banging headache that has been plaguing him since he opened his eyes that morning.

During the last meeting they had with Kinn, and the others, Vegas and Kim agreed to encounter Tessa’s contact inside their hotel. Because of that, that morning, they went down to the breakfast area to wait for the person there; even though Vegas didn’t want nothing more than just stay in bed, all blinds closed and ask the hotel’s personnel to bring black coffee to him. Instead, they asked for a table a bit away from the crowded space in the middle, trying their best to keep hidden from unwanted eyes upon them, even if they were inside of a hotel full of people whom they surely couldn’t keep an eye on all the time.

Vegas ordered his cup of black coffee while Kim was a bit more adventurous with a pile of Nutella pancakes and strawberries.

“For someone at your age, your taste is much more childlike.” Vegas teased while sipping his coffee. “Was this something you learn by dating someone younger than you?”

Kim stopped in the middle of putting a strawberry on his mouth, looking at Vegas with a murderous look on his face.

“Well, at least it’s better than just plain coffee.” He talked back. “Are you in a hangover or something?”

Actually, Vegas was.

He went out to drink his ass off after Kinn’s call the night before, regarding the conversation he had with Wei Yuxuan in the hospital last week. The heir of the Wei family was recovering well, thankfully, after spending a couple of days in a coma.

According to Kinn, after much insistence, he told he had a meeting with Yuze two weeks before the accident happened. Yuze, the fucking heir bastard of the Huàng Family, was offering him a business proposal of a new pill the Huàng family was financing; the pill supposedly acted directly on the nervous system and promised to act quicker and better than morphine, without any risks of addiction. Of course the offer sounded a bit too good to be truth and Yuxuan asked for a small test on the sample Yuze gave him.

He was surprised with the amount of cocaine it had inside the little white pill. The Huàng family was basically offering a drug dealing business hidden as health issue. To Vegas, being inside this type of business, the idea behind it was cleaver, but the way they pulled it out... it couldn’t be dumber.  

Everyone knew about the Wei Family business; they were what people considered to be the biggest name in pharmaceutics inside China. Getting a business deal with them could mean an easy and “legal” way of transporting drugs not only inside China, but also abroad. A couple of years ago, Wei Pharmaceutics got the permission to export to other countries as United States, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa; besides the whole Asia, of course. It was the best opportunity to take it.  

So, when Yuxuan refused, Yuze sent a group of men, undercover, to try to kill him; if Vegas had to guess, he would probably said that Yuze bought some employees, whoever he convinced of betraying their own leader. Wei Yuxuan was forced to take a notorious number of painkillers and to write a “suicide” note with his own calligraphy. After that, one of his secretaries found him almost dead in his office and called an ambulance after performing CPR. After days in an induced coma and two surgeries on his stomach and kidneys, it was a miracle that he survived.